Help with math problem please!!!

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Give 17mg/kg/day in two divided doses to a child weighing 6kg. The medication available is 0.025g/ml. Round each answer to the nearest 1/10th as applicable.

1.mg/dose

2.ml/dose

3.mg/day

4.ml/day

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I am not sure what your 1-2-3-4 refer to. This question as presented makes no sense. Could you clarify?

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Removing this because it is the answer. Just remember the formula:

Want/Have * Vehicle

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Waitaminnit. Are you asking how many mg per dose, how many ml per dose, how many mg per day, and how many ml per day?

Those are easy. But we don't do your homework for you-- all that does is let you know that we know how to get an answer. We want to help you figure it out, because you will have a lot of medication problems in your professional life. To help you think about how to start: Let's pretend that instead of a drug, you are giving away M&M candy on Halloween.

The kid that comes to your door can have 17 M&Ms for each kg of his weight. You weigh him, and he's 6 kg. How many M&Ms is that in his goody bag? OK, so he's too small to really be trick-or-treating or eat M&Ms, but bear with me.

When he gets home his mom has to divide those M&Ms in half, because he can't eat them all at once. How many M&Ms does he get in the morning, and how many in the evening?

M&Ms weigh 0.025gm each. How many mg is that, each one? How many mg does the kid get in his bag, total?

How many mg does he get for breakfast and dinner?

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I don't want you to do my homework for me. I'm practicing for a test. I understand how to do the problem, but don't have anyone to check my answers against. If you wanna lecture me on how easy it is, than don't bother to respond!!

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Why don't you give us your answers so we can actually tell you if you're right or not?

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Why waste your time responding? I have help now, so no thank you!!! Goodbye!!

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Why waste our time responding? Because we want to help you.....our goal is to help you become the best nurse you can be. Dosage calculations will follow you your entire career. Because we are nurses and professionals we have an obligation to the incoming nurses to help them be the best they can be.

Seeing how you work the problem helps us see what you aren't understanding...where you are going wrong...which is why we sk for your input first. To correct you and lead you to knowing how to do this for yourself..... skill you will use for your entire career.

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